Thanksgiving Weekend Anime Roundup

‘Anime’ + ‘Thanksgiving’ will actually turn up a fair amount of pictures. I never figured. Some of them don’t even feature turkeys though so I’ll just steal the Naruto one. Did everyone get an overdose on tryptophan these last few days? I personally dislike turkey so I guess I have no excuse to be lazy. It’s just always really hard to get back into the groove of things after a long break, but I’m not going to start off too big. Aoi Bungaku’s adaptation of Kokoro is staring at me, but I’m not quite ready to talk about it yet. Maybe Fin will stop being lazy and beat me to the punch, I dunno. Let’s just revisit some of the other anime I watch to kill time: Letter Bee, Kampfer, Nyan Koi! and The Sacred Blacksmith.

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Anime and the Slice of Life Genre

I was trying to watch another Kobato episode earlier tonight and I just could not stand it. The show is absolutely dull and you would be hard-pressed to convince me otherwise. I’m following Kobato as she goes around a giant university campus looking for some dude (I think his name is Fujimoto) and the big elephant in the room just kept jabbing me in the face with its nose: who gives a damn?

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